Runner’s year to remember (From Runcorn and Widnes World)
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Runcorn runner’s year to remember
8:10am Thursday 25th October 2012 in News
Chris Fitzpatrick with St Berteline’s teachers who supported his charity marathon
A runner is on target to complete a daunting challenge.
Chris Fitzpatrick, aged 35, of Barncroft, Norton Cross, Runcorn, has vowed to run 2,012 miles in 2012 and raise £2,012 for Clatterbridge in memory of cancer victim Mark Gorry, who died from testicular cancer.
02 software designer Mark, aged 23, of Wavertree Avenue, Widnes, set up a charity to raise £1 million for Clatterbridge.
Dave Catt and Andy Morland, teachers at St Berteline’s Primary School in Windmill Hill, Runcorn, ran 200 miles over two weeks.
Paralympian Mark Ecclestone, who won a silver medal in wheelchair tennis in Athens 2004, gave pupils and teachers an inspirational talk.
